Eddie Bauer will close by Monday on the Fox River Mall's central corridor. / Maureen Wallenfang/Post-Crescent Media

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Maureen Wallenfang

Post-Crescent staff writer

The shop is nearing the end of its lease, and the mall chose to use that space for another retailer.

“We’re making room for some changes that will happen next year,” said John Burgland, senior general manager of the mall. “We’re looking at the possibility that we might bring them back in the near future. They’re a great merchant.”

He said the mall didn’t have another mutually agreeable spot available right away.

Burgland declined to say how the Eddie Bauer space on the central corridor will be used because the next lease was not finalized.

“There is something else coming in that we think is a great change,” he said.

Eddie Bauer currently has 30- to 50-percent-off signs on remaining merchandise and a good portion of the back is already empty. A sign indicates its outlet center in Oshkosh will remain open.

Store staffers declined to speak and a spokeswoman for Eddie Bauer’s corporate office in Bellevue, Wash. was not immediately available to comment.

UPDATED: A previous version of this story gave the incorrect ending date of Dec. 31.